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BROMPTON HOSPITAL: SANATORIUM AND CONVALESCENT HOME, HEATHERSIDE.
1801 through which
the prong passes when the blades
are
pressed
the
drainage is;
connected with the
Frimley
main drainage’
together. In use the forceps is lightly held with the blades scheme. The sanatorium is well wited for the three objects which apart and the prong is then inserted along the line of the wound under a stitch. The blades are then pressed together and the stitch is thus held in a grip from which it cannot escape and it can now be raised up from the wound so as to facilitate its division by scissors, after which the stitch still held by the forceps is withdrawn in the usual way. It is important that the blades should be made to spring wide asunder so that the fenestrated blade shall not impinge upon the skin and so hinder the insertion of the prong. Messrs. Down Brothers, Limited, of 21, St. Thomas’sstreet, London, S.E., who are the makers of the forceps, have very carefully carried out my directions. E. MUIRHEAD
LITTLE, F.R.C.S. Eng., London.
Surgeon to the National Orthopædic Hospital,
BROMPTON HOSPITAL: SANATORIUM AND CONVALESCENT HOME, HEATHERSIDE.
the committee of the Brompton Hospital had in view in erecting it. The first was to submit early cases of pulmonary tuberculosis to open-air treatment in a dry and bracing climate for several months with a view to obtaining arrest of the disease. The second object was to educate a large number of patients in the system of hygienic or open-air treatment, so that, having learnt these principles, they may return to their own homes and become centres of instruction to others. The third object was to provide a convalescent home for patients who had been treated in the parent institution at Brompton. A few weeks in the fine air of Heatherside under medical supervision will, it is hoped, restore such patients sufficiently to enable them to resume work. An interesting and instructive point in connexion, with this development of Brompton Hospital is the fact that. no payment of any kind will be required from the patients, It is sincerely to be hoped that the public-spirited efforts of the committee of the hospital will not be allowed to fail for want of the necessary financial support.
THE Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Brompton, is now provided with a sanatorium and convalescent home pleasantly situated on the Chobham Ridges of Surrey, 400 feet above sea level, about 30 miles from FROM London, two miles from Frimley railway station, and THE LANCET, SATURDAY, June 24, 1826. three miles from Camberley. The site presents conspicuous advantages in regard to elevation, soil and It clearly appears from the following table, that there is a shelter, water-supply, and accessibility. The cost of the great disproportion between the different grades of medical land and of erecting and furnishing the buildings will men in Paris and London :-
Looking
Back.
some £ 70,000 of the invested funds of the hosand the estimated outlay for the maintenance Paris, in 1822, with 800,000 inhabitants. of the sanatorium is put down at about 10,000 per Physicians .................. 600 annum. The committee of the hospital trusts that the Surgeons..................... 128 charitable public will become governors and subscribers 181 Apothecaries to the hospital and thus provide for the increased annual expenditure. The Prince and Princess of Wales have 909 kindly consented formally to open the sanatorium on London. in 1822, with 1,200,000 inhabitants. June 25th and a preliminary inspection was accorded to a 174 Physicians small party of friends and others interested in the develop1000 Surgeons ment of the principle of the open-air treatment of tuber2000 Apothecaries culosis which took place on June 20th under the guidance of Chemists and druggists... 300 Dr. P. Horton-Smith and the architect, Mr. Edwin T. Hall. The sanatorium grounds are spacious and excellent shelter is provided from the north and east winds by pine woods affording grateful shade in summer while at the same time ADULTERATION OF DRUGS. being free from damp. The soil is gravel and sand and To the Editor of THE LANCET belongs to the Upper Bagshot series with a reputation for dryness. The climate is described as dry, sunny, and the avowed objects of"THE LANCET"are the SIR,-As of a bracing character. The sanatorium itself is planned advantage of the profession, and the good of mankind, I on a novel and original design consisting of several trust to the principles of your publication for the insertion buildings. A two-storeyed block of stellate form rising of this letter. into three storeys in the centre is for the reception of Medical men are aware of adulterations of drugs by 100 patients. The central part includes the board and day their vendors. And as most ofmany them are acknowledged to be the four radial of rooms and some of the larger wards, while very little, and others of no importance, they are assented pavilions contain the majority of the wards which are to by one party and practised by the other. principally single-bedded. These face directly south or But there are other adulterations which are of the greatest partially so and are arranged in such a manner that no one moment, that are more dangerous, as they are of the most portion of the building is shaded by another. An interesting efficient articles in the " Materia Medicaand still more point in connexion with these pavilions is the fact that they so as they are not suspected. are cut off from the rest of the block by a corridor of fireI subjoin a list of the medicines, and their most common resisting construction with a glass roof. The wards are de- adulterations ; leaving it to some of your ingenious corresigned to have the windows open day and night with protecto suggest a remedy for this very general and tion from weather and glare, and the lower storey is so planned spondents enormous evil to the public and to the profession. that patients in bed can be wheeled out on to the terrace to I am, Sir, yours, &c., be under the full influence of the sunshine and atmosphere. A GENERAL PRACTITIONER. Open balconies are formed at the end of each pavilion and, Articles adulterated. in addition, large rest shelters will be erected in the sanaCalomel with Sulphate of Lime ; Opium with Spanish torium grounds. In two detached sanitary towers on either side of the central building are bathrooms and lavatories. Juice ; Sulphate of Quinine Starch ; Iodine with Charcoal ; A second group of buildings contains the two dining rooms Croton Oil with any fixed Oil ; Tartarized Antimony with and a large recreation room and behind these there are the Super-Acetate of Potash ; Epsom Salts with Glauber Salts ; kitchen and offices, whilst on either side connected by Magnesia with Chalk; Elaterium with the faeculent Matter covered ways are the residence of the medical officers and of the Preparation ; Blistering Plaster with Linseed Powder ; the home for the nurses. At some distance from the sana- Prussic Acid is a preparation of such variable quality, that a torium is the machinery block in which are the boilers fatal dose of the acid obtained from one druggist, may be and engine houses, the mortuary, and the laboratory. The given tripled, with impunity, when purchased of another. lighting wi’1be by electricity generated on the premises and 1 Excerpt from review of An Exposition of the State of the Medical the heating will be principally by hot water radiators. The in the British Dominions; and of the injurious effects of the Profession is obtained from the Frimley Waterworks Monopoly by Usurpation water-supply of the Royal College of Physicians in London. which are at a short distance from the sanatorium, and 8vo. pp. 373, Longman, Rees, and Co. 1826.
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the prong passes when the blades
are
pressed
the
drainage is;
connected with the
Frimley
main drainage’
together. In use the forceps is lightly held with the blades scheme. The sanatorium is well wited for the three objects which apart and the prong is then inserted along the line of the wound under a stitch. The blades are then pressed together and the stitch is thus held in a grip from which it cannot escape and it can now be raised up from the wound so as to facilitate its division by scissors, after which the stitch still held by the forceps is withdrawn in the usual way. It is important that the blades should be made to spring wide asunder so that the fenestrated blade shall not impinge upon the skin and so hinder the insertion of the prong. Messrs. Down Brothers, Limited, of 21, St. Thomas’sstreet, London, S.E., who are the makers of the forceps, have very carefully carried out my directions. E. MUIRHEAD
LITTLE, F.R.C.S. Eng., London.
Surgeon to the National Orthopædic Hospital,
BROMPTON HOSPITAL: SANATORIUM AND CONVALESCENT HOME, HEATHERSIDE.
the committee of the Brompton Hospital had in view in erecting it. The first was to submit early cases of pulmonary tuberculosis to open-air treatment in a dry and bracing climate for several months with a view to obtaining arrest of the disease. The second object was to educate a large number of patients in the system of hygienic or open-air treatment, so that, having learnt these principles, they may return to their own homes and become centres of instruction to others. The third object was to provide a convalescent home for patients who had been treated in the parent institution at Brompton. A few weeks in the fine air of Heatherside under medical supervision will, it is hoped, restore such patients sufficiently to enable them to resume work. An interesting and instructive point in connexion, with this development of Brompton Hospital is the fact that. no payment of any kind will be required from the patients, It is sincerely to be hoped that the public-spirited efforts of the committee of the hospital will not be allowed to fail for want of the necessary financial support.
THE Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Brompton, is now provided with a sanatorium and convalescent home pleasantly situated on the Chobham Ridges of Surrey, 400 feet above sea level, about 30 miles from FROM London, two miles from Frimley railway station, and THE LANCET, SATURDAY, June 24, 1826. three miles from Camberley. The site presents conspicuous advantages in regard to elevation, soil and It clearly appears from the following table, that there is a shelter, water-supply, and accessibility. The cost of the great disproportion between the different grades of medical land and of erecting and furnishing the buildings will men in Paris and London :-
Looking
Back.
some £ 70,000 of the invested funds of the hosand the estimated outlay for the maintenance Paris, in 1822, with 800,000 inhabitants. of the sanatorium is put down at about 10,000 per Physicians .................. 600 annum. The committee of the hospital trusts that the Surgeons..................... 128 charitable public will become governors and subscribers 181 Apothecaries to the hospital and thus provide for the increased annual expenditure. The Prince and Princess of Wales have 909 kindly consented formally to open the sanatorium on London. in 1822, with 1,200,000 inhabitants. June 25th and a preliminary inspection was accorded to a 174 Physicians small party of friends and others interested in the develop1000 Surgeons ment of the principle of the open-air treatment of tuber2000 Apothecaries culosis which took place on June 20th under the guidance of Chemists and druggists... 300 Dr. P. Horton-Smith and the architect, Mr. Edwin T. Hall. The sanatorium grounds are spacious and excellent shelter is provided from the north and east winds by pine woods affording grateful shade in summer while at the same time ADULTERATION OF DRUGS. being free from damp. The soil is gravel and sand and To the Editor of THE LANCET belongs to the Upper Bagshot series with a reputation for dryness. The climate is described as dry, sunny, and the avowed objects of"THE LANCET"are the SIR,-As of a bracing character. The sanatorium itself is planned advantage of the profession, and the good of mankind, I on a novel and original design consisting of several trust to the principles of your publication for the insertion buildings. A two-storeyed block of stellate form rising of this letter. into three storeys in the centre is for the reception of Medical men are aware of adulterations of drugs by 100 patients. The central part includes the board and day their vendors. And as most ofmany them are acknowledged to be the four radial of rooms and some of the larger wards, while very little, and others of no importance, they are assented pavilions contain the majority of the wards which are to by one party and practised by the other. principally single-bedded. These face directly south or But there are other adulterations which are of the greatest partially so and are arranged in such a manner that no one moment, that are more dangerous, as they are of the most portion of the building is shaded by another. An interesting efficient articles in the " Materia Medicaand still more point in connexion with these pavilions is the fact that they so as they are not suspected. are cut off from the rest of the block by a corridor of fireI subjoin a list of the medicines, and their most common resisting construction with a glass roof. The wards are de- adulterations ; leaving it to some of your ingenious corresigned to have the windows open day and night with protecto suggest a remedy for this very general and tion from weather and glare, and the lower storey is so planned spondents enormous evil to the public and to the profession. that patients in bed can be wheeled out on to the terrace to I am, Sir, yours, &c., be under the full influence of the sunshine and atmosphere. A GENERAL PRACTITIONER. Open balconies are formed at the end of each pavilion and, Articles adulterated. in addition, large rest shelters will be erected in the sanaCalomel with Sulphate of Lime ; Opium with Spanish torium grounds. In two detached sanitary towers on either side of the central building are bathrooms and lavatories. Juice ; Sulphate of Quinine Starch ; Iodine with Charcoal ; A second group of buildings contains the two dining rooms Croton Oil with any fixed Oil ; Tartarized Antimony with and a large recreation room and behind these there are the Super-Acetate of Potash ; Epsom Salts with Glauber Salts ; kitchen and offices, whilst on either side connected by Magnesia with Chalk; Elaterium with the faeculent Matter covered ways are the residence of the medical officers and of the Preparation ; Blistering Plaster with Linseed Powder ; the home for the nurses. At some distance from the sana- Prussic Acid is a preparation of such variable quality, that a torium is the machinery block in which are the boilers fatal dose of the acid obtained from one druggist, may be and engine houses, the mortuary, and the laboratory. The given tripled, with impunity, when purchased of another. lighting wi’1be by electricity generated on the premises and 1 Excerpt from review of An Exposition of the State of the Medical the heating will be principally by hot water radiators. The in the British Dominions; and of the injurious effects of the Profession is obtained from the Frimley Waterworks Monopoly by Usurpation water-supply of the Royal College of Physicians in London. which are at a short distance from the sanatorium, and 8vo. pp. 373, Longman, Rees, and Co. 1826.
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